Quotes About Direction

If you don't know exactly what you want, that is exactly what you will get.

Begin each day as if it were on purpose.

One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: You are.

If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.

Of course, the world is full of problems. But on the other hand it's important to get the sense... are we generally moving in the right direction or the wrong direction?

Fear is just like mist. Don't let it disorient you from living outside God's palm. Acknowledge it, then take any one step in any one direction... and repeat.

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

There is no art without intention.

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

Wherever the music comes from, if there is no focus behind it then it's just noise

The direction for my music is heaven, of course. We gear all things to the realm of heaven - which is the mind, the organized mind.

Music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn't charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction.

I had no direction. I thought, 'I need to make a difference in my life,' and music was my answer.

Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.

PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In Journalese, to perform upon a musical instrument; as, "He presided at the piccolo."

I'm the band leader. That's not to say that the other people are my minions - they all put in a tremendous amount of personality, and push the music in ways I would never expect.

without music he felt aimless and adrift.

There exists in nature a force which is immeasurably more powerful than steam, and by means of which a single man, who knows how to adapt and direct it, might upset and alter the face of the world.

Nature of course is the best guide in the matter of choosing a pursuit.

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.

In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the creative activity in the most diverse directions.

History is direction—but Nature is extension—ergo, everyone gets eaten by a bear.

You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature.

Human nature is to need a map. If you're brave enough to draw one, people will follow.